“Fine.”
“Good.” She claps her hands together—at the same time a bolt of lightning strikes the air. “Now, excuse me. You have me all worked up. I need to go bother a vampire. He’s so good to spar with.”
If only I truly cared about her location, I might ask about this vampire she continues mentioning.
“That was you?” I point to the sky.
“Duh.”
“Whatareyour powers exactly? You’re not of one element.”
“Everything.”
On my next blink, she’s gone.
Forty-Two
CARINA
“Did you see her neck?We didn’t count on this.”
The voice is male. Hesitant. Close by.
“Mom claims it won’t matter. Fucking a shifter only sullies her. How I see it, she’s already halfway turned away from Hecate.”
A female voice, reluctant, closer.
That isn’t true.
“Do you sense it in her?” he asks.
“Yeah. She took the Darkness, which means we’re halfway there.”
Halfway to what?
“You notice how she looks exactly like her?”
“That bitch betrayed us. If only Carina didn’t look like her, it’d make her more tolerable.” The woman’s tone is packed with a different kind of Darkness.
Who do I look like? Are they talking about my birth mother?
“Addie, be nice.”
Addie. A name to remember.
“How’s it feel, knowing if the past went differently, you two would be bonded?”
Say what?
There’s a pause before the guy murmurs, “We wouldn’t be in this mess, which would be a blessing. Instead, everything has to be done the hard way. Either way, thrilled actually.”
“It could still happen, you know. If Mom chooses to make a point to Morgan, she might still go forth with the union. It’d be a quicker way to bring her into the Darkness.”
Wait…
A sniff. “I’d rather not.”
“That’s only because you’re interested inhim.”
